On the Cup Trail: Hiddink, Ireland game?

Some Monday morning hitters for you as we are now just a mere 185 day from World Cup 2010!

C'mon Guus, no cameo?

• Turkey fans, USMNT fans and other nattie team fans can now focus somewhere else: Supercoach Guus Hiddink (who has coached Lee Nguyen and DaMarcus Beasley among other Americans) is staying put with Russia, according to reports, and will be in South Africa next June as a spectator only.

• The US looks to be angling for a Northern Ireland friendly on the frontend or backend of their Netherlands jaunt. Why perhaps? Back in April of this year, the North Irelanders clamped down on Slovenia 1-0 at home. Share some info, gauge your team. Good work, if it materializes, U.S. Soccer.

Rough translation:
“Already we’re working on dates and the first one will be against United States on Sunday January 24th at the Home Depot Center”, confirmed yesterday by the president of the Fenafuth (Hounduran Soccer Federation), Rafael Callejas.

Appreciate that…I saw that this morning…since we’re not a news site per se, we typically are a little bit late on those things if they are not confirmed in two places. I haven’t seen anything besides that report right there. If it was a news source that we knew already of we’d post it, but thanks for posting in the comment section.

I thought it was interesting in the commentary section that the Hondurans in the US want the game in Texas or Chicago….

The friendly seems likely with it being a short jaunt from Central America (relatively speaking) and with it coming at the end of Camp Cupcake (please step forward Mr. Victoria’s Secret…..)

Also, TSG is working on getting some unique pieces going on Honduras….hopefully we’ll have news on those shortly.